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Margery Fee
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Academic background
EducationBA., M.A, Glendon College, York University
PhD., English, University of Toronto
ThesisEnglish-Canadian literary criticism, 1890-1950: defining and establishing a national literature (1992)
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Notable studentsDeanna Reder
Main interestsAboriginal, Canadian, and postcolonial literatures

Margery Fee (born 1948)

professor emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia (UBC). From 2015 to 2017, Fee was the Brenda and David McLean Chair In Canadian Studies at UBC. She publishes in the fields of Canadian, postcolonial and Indigenous studies and Canadian English usage and lexicography.[1]

Education

Fee completed her PhD studies in English at the University of Toronto in 1981, with a dissertation entitled "English-Canadian literary criticism, 1890–1950: defining and establishing a national literature".[2] After earning her PhD, Fee began to take up an interest in Indigenous peoples literature.[3]

Career

Early career

Because academic jobs in English were scarce in the early 1980s, Fee decided to earn a diploma in applied linguistics at the

English as a second language (ESL) in Japan. While earning the diploma, she learned of the existence of the Strahy Language Unit at Queen's University.[4] The Unit was founded in 1981 to study the English language in Canada by a bequest from J. R. Strathy, a Queen's alumnus with a lifelong passion for the English language.[5] Two years later, Fee was hired as director of the Unit, replacing W. C. Lougheed.[4][6] Lougheed had recognized the need for creating a computer-based Canadian English "corpus" of texts, essentially a database of Canadian English. Fee helped obtain a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to continue the expansion of the corpus. The resulting Strathy Corpus of Canadian English is a 50-million-word corpus of written and spoken English dated between 1970 and 2010.[7] It is freely available online.[8] Using this corpus, she coordinated with later director Janice McAlpine to publish the Guide to Canadian English Usage in 1997 (1st ed.).[9]

During this period, Fee continued her work on Canadian literature. In 1985, she published Canadian poetry in selected English-language anthologies: an index and guide. In 1992, Fee compiled a collection of essays titled Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John.[10] The book also included an interview of Howard O'Hagan, conducted by Keith Maillard in 1979, where he explained his writing process.[11] She published The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood's "Lady Oracle", a literature review of Margaret Atwood's work in 1993.[12]

UBC

Fee was hired as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1993.[13] She came to UBC with the purpose of teaching First Nations literatures.[3]

Fee served as Associate Dean of students from 1999 to 2004.[1] In 2005, Fee was awarded the Margaret Fulton Award for her contribution to student development and the University community.[3] She served as director of the Arts One Program and director of the Canadian Studies Program from 2005 to 2008.[1] The year she left her position as director, Fee was honoured as a distinguished scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies[13] and was the recipient of the Dean of Arts Award.[14]

From 2007 until 2015, Fee was an editor of Canadian Literature, a quarterly journal of criticism and review.[15] She led the team that established CanLit Guides, an open-access resource for the study of Canadian literature.[16] In 2015, Fee was selected as the Brenda and David McLean Chair In Canadian Studies at UBC.[1] That year, her book Literary Land Claims was shortlisted for the 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize by the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures.[17] The book analyses texts produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by speakers and writers who resisted nationalist ideas about Canada's claim to land: John Richardson, Louis Riel, E. Pauline Johnson, Archibald Belaney (Grey Owl) and Harry Robinson.[18] Similarly, Fee became a co-Investigator with Daniel Heath Justice and Deanna Reder on a SSHRC-funded project called The People And The Text.[19] The project aimed to collect ignored texts and literature from Indigenous Canadians during the time of British colonization.[20]

In 2016, Fee published Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson's writings on native North America, which detailed the life of the early North American Indigenous poet and fiction writer.[21] The following year, Fee was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her research in Canadian literature and Canadian English lexicography.[22][23]

Publications

The following is a list of publications:[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Margery Fee Announced as Mclean Chair, 2015-2017". canadianstudies.ubc.ca. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Resolve a Handle and View the Values". hdl.handle.net. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Dr. Margery Fee: Fostering Student Engagement". Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b Margery Fee (16 March 2011). "Academic Accidents and the Development of Usage Guide". queensu.ca. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Home | Strathy Language Unit".
  6. ^ "Case 8: The Strathy Language Unit and Canadian English". virtual-exhibits.library.queensu.ca. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Strathy Corpus of Canadian English | Strathy Language Unit". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. ^ "English-Corpora: Strathy". www.english-corpora.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Strathy Language Unit – Queen's University 1981 – 2011". queensu.ca. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  10. ^ "Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John". ecwpress.com. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  11. ^ Margery Fee, ed. Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John (ECW Press, 1992), 21-38.
  12. ^ "The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle". umanitoba.ca. September 1994. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Margery Fee". pwias.ubc.ca. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  14. ^ "Awards & Honours". english.ubc.ca. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  15. ^ "Margery Fee, Lucie Hotte, and Lorraine York named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada". canlit.ca. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  16. ^ "CanLit Guides Editorial Team | CanLit Guides". canlitguides.ca. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  17. ^ "Gabrielle Roy Prize Finalist". english.ubc.ca. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  18. ^ Literary Land Claims. Retrieved 24 April 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  19. ^ "The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library — Jun 17-18, 2016". spokenweb.ca. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  20. ^ "About the Project". thepeopleandthetext.ca. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  21. ^ "Tekahionwake : E. Pauline Johnson's writings on native North America / edited by Margery Fee and Dory Nason". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  22. ^ "Margery Fee, fellow to the Royal Society of Canada". canadianstudies.ubc.ca. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  23. ^ "Fellows | the Royal Society of Canada". 3 August 2012.
  24. ^ "au: Fee, Margery". worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 April 2019.

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